My heart trips and it takes all I have not to react.
“Your daughter?”
“Didn’t know that small tidbit, did you? Oh, the things I know that you don’t. Your head would spin.”
He’s baiting me, I know it, but I can’t resist asking again. “Beth… was your daughter?”
“Yes. I was trying to get her to come home. She, of course, didn’t want to leave. It took some convincing. I told her you would hurt her, but I never knew just how much. Tell me, how does it feel to know you’re responsible for killing the one person in this world who didn’t realize what a waste of air you really are?”
My hand trembles, but I ignore it. He scored his point, but I’m fucking tired of it.
“Now, Sabre.”
Sabre fires the rounds into Redmond’s men after they are turned loose. Redmond does jump then, but the fucker still faces me head-on.
“This isn’t about Beth,” I say, my voice deadly cold. “I’ve already lost her, though if I’m to blame for that, you are too, aren’t you, Redmond?”
He shrugs. “You’d be surprised the lengths a father would go to.”
“I’m sure. Trouble is, I don’t give a fuck to listen to your voice anymore. Latch? You got your phone?”
“Yeah, boss. Right here.”
“Tape it.”
He aims his phone at Redmond. The man looks confused for a minute.
“You see, Redmond, all this time I thought Colin had ordered one of my men’s vehicles rigged. Imagine my surprise when Matthew told me the orders hadn’t come from either of them.”
Redmond glances at his nephews. I expect him to deny it. Honestly, I’m hoping he will. I’d like to kill all of them and be done with it. I really thought Matthew lied to me and Colin was the one that gave that order.
“All’s fair in war,” mutters Redmond, shrugging again.
“Your actions caused my brother to lose his daughter.”
“Your actions caused the same for me. I’d say that makes us even.”
Bastard. “There’s only one problem with that. I’m not interested in being ‘even’. I have something else I’d like more.”
“What’s that?”
“I want to be completely rid of all of you. Matthew and Colin here assure me that, with you dead, this is done and I will get just that.”
“I could assure you the same. Besides, what’s to stop them from going back on their word? Obviously they can’t be trusted, or I would not be in the position I am.”
“Nothing… except this tape, and a recording I have of them making the deal. They really want to be rid of you. Right, boys?”
“Absolutely,” says Colin while Matthew just nods. That’s enough confirmation for me; Sabre getting them on video is just one more thing I have for security.
“Ah, I get it. It wouldn’t do for my father to see what his nephews did to his only remaining son, right? I’m impressed, boys. I did the same thing when I killed your father.”
“You son of a bitch!” Matthew growls.
“Oh relax, you would have eventually done the same thing.”
“Fuck this,” I say. “I got better shit to do and I’m tired of breathing the same air as you.”
“What would Beth think about you ending her father’s life?” asks Redmond. “I could tell you something that’d make you think twice about your deal…”
I don’t let him finish. I’ve had enough of games. I shoot Redmond’s gut three times in quick succession. He drops to the floor.
I spit on him. “That’s for Annabelle and for the hell you put Beth through. This last one is just because I think you smell,” I tell him.
Then, I empty my gun into his chest.
I turn to Latch. “You get it?” The deal was for Beast and Latch to tape it while making sure I wasn’t in the footage. That way, this couldn’t be linked back to me, should something happen. Beast needed to see that revenge was achieved for his daughter.
“Got it, boss.”
“Let’s get the fuck out of here.” I turn to Colin and Matthew. “I’m heading to Kentucky to start over. The crew that takes over here and mine, wherever we end up, are clear from you. Your shit does not enter into my territory, ever. If it does, your grandfather will know just what happened to his son.”
“We’re clear,” answers Matthew. “Redmond’s body will be loaded onto his private jet, which will crash into the Appalachian Mountains after having engine trouble. No one will know what took place here today.”
I walk off. I really can’t handle being in the same room with them anymore. I’m done.